Can someone walk me through installing a new dryer timer?

Factual Questions
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I can’t find a wiring schematic anywhere. I’m looking specifically for a Maytag model# pye2300ayw, but I can’t find an actual, “hook red wire to ‘x’ slot” step-by-step walkthrough.

Any help?

2

I installed a new start relay in my dryer. Not quite the same, but based on that experience, it should be dead simple. Basically pull off a plug, remove the old part, install the new one, and push on the plug.

Or is it the case that you pulled wires off the original part and didn’t write down where things came from?

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Couple silly questions:

  1. Why didn’t the new timer come with installation instructions, as is usual for such things?

  2. Can you use the old timer as a template for installing the new one? Just pull each wire from the old timer one by one and place it in the same location on the new one until they are all transferred.

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What Q.E.D. said. If it doesn’t have a modular plug, then do a wire by wire replacement. If you have by some chance already removed the wires from the old timer (So you could take it with you to be sure you got the right replacement) and was counting on having instructions come with the new one (Fat chance!), then it’s a little trickier.
Every dryer I ever worked on had a schematic diagram somewhere on the dryer itself. On some models, it’s pasted to the inside of an access panel. On others (mostly GE or Hotpoint) it’s in a little envelope inside the control panel. With some amount of patience and a magnifying glass, you can generally puzzle out which wire goes where. The wires are usually color coded as well as having numbers written directly on them which will correspond to the schematic.

Good luck, and have fun.

5

Google is your(our) friend.
Maytag pye2300ayw schematic.

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www.repairclinic.com has charts and FAQs, and of course they’d like to sell you the parts. With their help, I fixed my gas range and my dryer.